Unfortunately, USB does not work like Firewire, where this was possible.

USB 4, i.e. Thunderbolt, allows the emulation of network interfaces if you interconnect the USB Type C ports with a cable, but here you have USB 3, so this does not work.

On USB 3 you could interconnect 2 ports only if one of them implemented the On-the-Go specification, so it could work as either a peripheral port or a host port. Here this also does not work. On a system where this had been allowed by the hardware, it is likely that you would have needed to write yourself a device driver that emulates a network interface, because I am not aware of an already existing one, unlike for USB 4.

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zokier an hour ago | parent [-]

> USB 4, i.e. Thunderbolt

USB4 and TB are different things (confusingly enough)

	▲	adrian_b 8 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		USB 4 includes more than Thunderbolt, because Thunderbolt was not compatible with USB, despite using the same connector. All features of Thunderbolt 3 have been inherited by USB 4, like also all those of USB 3, including the ability of Thunderbolt to emulate Ethernet interfaces when you interconnect 2 computers with a cable through their USB 4 ports, like it was already possible with Thunderbolt ports.